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Volga - Volga is a film of genre Comedy directed by Grigori Alexandrov with Lioubov Orlova

Volga - Volga (1938)

Volga - Volga
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Length 1h44
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Genres Comedy,    Musical theatre,    Musical
Rating65% 3.2954253.2954253.2954253.2954253.295425

Volga-Volga (Russian: Волга-Волга) is a Soviet film comedy directed by Grigori Aleksandrov, released on April 24, 1938. It centres on a group of amateur performers on their way to Moscow to perform in a talent contest called the Moscow Musical Olympiad. Most of the action takes place on a steamboat travelling on the Volga River. The lead roles were played by Alexandrov's wife, Lyubov Orlova, and Igor Ilyinsky.

According to Orlova, the name of the film is taken from a popular Russian folk song, Stenka Razin, that Alexandrov sang while rowing with Charlie Chaplin in San Francisco Bay. Chaplin jokingly suggested the words as a title for a movie, but Alexandrov took it seriously and named his new film Volga-Volga.

The feature was said to be Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin's favourite film. Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs says that in the pre-war period Stalin laughed at him since he resembled a character from the film.

In 2006, a colorization of the original black-and-white film began. The colorized version premiered on the Russian First Channel on February 14, 2010.

Synopsis

Byvalov, chef carriériste et bureaucrate d'une petite ville de province rêve de s'établir à Moscou. Il reçoit un télégramme de la capitale pour présenter des équipes de musiciens amateurs aux Olympiades musicales de Moscou, mais estimant qu'il n'y a pas de talent dans sa petite ville, Byvalov ne veut envoyer personne. Il existe deux orchestres d'amateurs en ville, l'un de musique classique, l'autre de musique populaire. Ils essayent en vain de convaincre le chef du soviet municipal. Finalement Byvalov, accepte de partir en bateau sur la Volga pour rejoindre Moscou, avec l'orchestre de musique classique. L'autre équipe, dirigée par Dounia (Lioubov Orlova), s'y rend par ses propres moyens et arrive avant les autres.

Actors

Lioubov Orlova

(Dounia Petrova)Igor Ilinski

(Byvalov)Andreï Toutychkine

(Aliocha)Valentina Kibardina
Vsevolod Sanaïev

(le bûcheron)
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